In a feature length interview with Empire discussing his new movie THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, director David Fincher talks about various projects he is still interested in making, including FERTIG, a project I have googled a IGN entry going as far back as August 2000.
Back then William Nicholson’s (GLADIATOR) script had caught the eye of Tom Cruise but since 2002, Fincher has been eyeing Brad Pitt for the film.
FERTIG based on the biography of middle-aged American civil engineer-turned-World War II guerrilla fighter Wendell Fertig who with a small team of Americans refused under orders to surrender and led thousands of Filipinos in a seemingly hopeless war against the Japanese.
It’s one of the most famous individual stories from the end of the Second World War as the team literally became the most resourceful guys alive to fight without equipment or artillery.
Fincher tells Empire the movie could be “huge” and one of the “five greatest movies ever made” if they can just nail down a script…
I think all of the criticisms levelled at the script, up until this point, have been valid ones, but I also think it’s just one of the great fucking stories. I talk with Robert Towne [scribe of CHINATOWN] twice a week and he’s working.
He goes on to say that once a script comes in he will give it to Brad Pitt and is convinced the actor would sign up to the project in a heartbeat.
Meanwhile he tells Empire he is currently working on adapting BLACK HOLE for Paramount and MTV, based on Charles Burns graphic novel which Fincher took over from Alexandre Aja in February.
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